Startup Africa News

17/11/2023

16/11/2023

Um dia incrível na incubadora de negócios do Standard Bank, onde mergulhamos na arte do marketing para MPME’s! 🚀 O sucesso do evento reflete o poder da inovação e colaboração em nosso ecossistema. Juntos estamos construindo o futuro do ecossistema de inovação em grande estilo.

Agradecemos a Agência da União Africana para Desenvolvimento (AUDA-NEPAD) e o apoio do Standard Bank Moçambique


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13/11/2023

A não perder.
Evento realizado no âmbito da iniciativa 100 milhões de MPME’s da Agência de Desenvolvimento da União Africana.

14/10/2023

AfricArena Announces Winners at Tunis Summit 2023

The second day of the AfricArena Tunis AI, DeepTech, HealthTech & EdTech Summit which took place from 11 – 12 October 2023 concluded on Thursday after several interesting panel discussions and startup pitch tracks with a glittering awards ceremony in which the winning startups from each pitch track receive an award.

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http://startupafrica.news/africarenasummit2023/

14/10/2023

Google has picked about 11 startups from Africa to take part in its accelerator program, AI First. The program will assist African startups in utilizing AI to address issues in both Africa and other parts of the globe. Three Nigerian businesses are among the 11 firms selected for the program’s initial batch. Africa is not as late as usual to the party as artificial intelligence, or AI is altering the world of business. Google has endorsed the efforts of a new generation of African innovators who are using AI to address issues facing the continent, such as healthcare, logistics, and agriculture. Google established a number of programs in August 2023 as part of its Google Accelerator programs, one of which is the AI-First project.

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startupafrica.news/googleai11

14/10/2023

The Energy Investment Village, a crucial venue where ten top African clean-tech start-ups will pitch their ground-breaking solutions to a distinguished panel of judges and possible foreign investors, is getting ready for the high-stakes Green Energy Africa Summit.

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startupafrica.news/agtech/

14/10/2023

Tech startups working to transform the agriculture and food tech industry in Africa are invited to apply for the SAIS Investment Readiness Programme to help them scale.

The Investment Readiness Programme is provided by the “Scaling Digital Agriculture Innovations through Startups” (SAIS) project, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and co-funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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14/10/2023

In a new Atlantic Council report titled ‘Unlocking Africa’s Agricultural Potential: Scaling Agtech to Improve Productivity,’ Aubry Hruby and Fatima Ezzahra Mengoub write that the rise of agriculture technology (agtech) solutions in Africa has opened significant avenues to transform food systems and address long-standing obstacles to improve smallholder productivity. An excerpt is provided below.

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http://startupafrica.news/agtechnology/

14/10/2023

DMZ Cairo, the renowned startup incubator and innovation hub, hailed the great success of Demo Day 2023. The event, which was held on September 20, 2023, at Founders Spaces in Downtown Cairo, marked a significant milestone in the Egyptian startup ecosystem. The evening witnessed the showcase of groundbreaking startups that participated in DMZ Cairo’s Incubator Cycle 2 in partnership with the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) through the National Program for Technology Incubators (INTILAC), and Fintech Bootcamp powered by the Export Development Bank of Egypt (EBank).

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startupafrica.news/egyptdmz2023/

14/10/2023

Kaivan Khalid Sattar spent weeks earlier this year driving around East Africa, deciding where to take Asaak, his Uganda-based company, next. Asaak, created in 2016, is a firm that finances motorcycles, gas, and cellphones for drivers of the region’s famed boda-boda motorbike taxis. Asaak was Uganda’s first online lender, serving the country’s estimated 1.2 million boda-boda drivers.

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http://startupafrica.news/fromugandatomexico/

11/10/2023

Baobab Network is providing founders with the early-stage capital and hands-on support they need to unlock growth and build world-class startups.

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http://startupafrica.news/baobab100k